About This Book

- 🌌 **Dream and Desire**: Siddhartha dreams of Govinda, but as he embraces him, he transforms into a woman, symbolizing Siddhartha's awakening to desire and sexuality, which he hesitates to act upon due to an inner voice guiding him. - 🌊 **The Journey of Self-Discovery**: Siddhartha reflects on the nature of searching versus finding, emphasizing that true wisdom comes from being open and free, rather than being fixated on goals. - 💖 **Love and Relationships**: He explores the complexities of love, asserting that it cannot be forced or bought, and that true connection requires mutual admiration and respect, rather than power dynamics. - 🪨 **The Nature of Existence**: Siddhartha contemplates the essence of things, recognizing that everything, including stones and humans, is interconnected and worthy of love, regardless of its current form. - 🧘‍♂️ **Wisdom vs. Knowledge**: He concludes that wisdom cannot be taught or expressed in words, but must be experienced, and that love is the most important aspect of understanding and embracing the world.

Top Highlights

• Siddhartha had a dream: Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a ful...
• I have learned from the river. Everything comes back!
• Siddhartha also felt desire and felt the source of his sexuality moving; but since he had never touched a woman before, he hesitated for a moment, while his hands were already prepared to reach out for her. And in this moment he heard, shuddering with awe, the voice if his innermost self, and this voice said no. Then, all charms disappeared from th...
• love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.
• Siddhartha waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.